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Ecclesiastes 7:24
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
Ecclesiastes 7:24 · World English Bible
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Ecclesiastes 7:24 in other translations
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
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In context
21 Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
22 for often your own heart knows that you yourself have likewise cursed others.
23 All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.
24 That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
25 I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.
26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
27 “Behold, I have found this,” says the Preacher, “to one another, to find an explanation
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